Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
to ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom,
my father,
let my country awake.
by Rabindranath Tagore
